Books by Heather Parry
“Carrion Crow is a fascinating book. I believe it’s inspired by a real-life story of a woman in France who was imprisoned by her own family for twenty-five years in an attic. It’s about a girl called Marguerite who is going to be married, but before she is married off, her mother tells her she is to be prepared for wifehood and confines her to an attic for her well-being. In this attic is a book, Mrs. Beaton’s Book of Household Management, and a sewing machine. She finds a carrion crow that has been making a nest in the walls. We understand that she’s going mad, that she’s being starved and neglected, and she may or may not be imagining this carrion crow…” Read more...
Interviews where books by Heather Parry were recommended
The Best Gothic Fantasy Novels, recommended by C.J. Cooke
Gothic fantasy helps us explore what is hidden, disturbing and liminal in our own lives, explains author C.J. Cooke. She introduces her top five gloriously Gothic novels, featuring haunted houses, attic prisons, carrion crows, and ghost children – and an underlying exploration of personal and collective traumas.
